Friday, June 15, 2007

The first International m-libraries conference is scheduled for November 13-14, 2007 in Milton Keynes, UK: http://library.open.ac.uk/mLibraries/index.html . From the conference page: "This conference, hosted by The Open University in partnership with Athabasca University, aims to explore and share work carried out in libraries around the world to deliver services and resources to users 'on the move,' via a growing plethora of mobile and hand-held devices. The conference will bring together researchers, technical developers, managers and library practitioners to exchange experience and expertise and generate ideas for future developments."

No word on if the libraries have professional librarians on duty. They also do not specify the libraries' size. It would be cool if they saved space and used the technology that Mexico is using to create their network of books-on-demand libraries: The world's first network of books on demand libraries http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/6/prweb532438.htm .